Antique & Vintage Postcards

A curly-haired child in lederhosen-style winter clothes stands bareheaded in the snow, hands pressed together in prayer before a roadside crucifix, the jagged Dolomite peaks rising blue-white behind a frozen alpine lake — a scene of devotional innocence that captured the Catholic Central European imagination of the 1930s. The artist's signature C. Öhler appears lower right, identifying this as a chromolithographic art card in the sentimental alpine-religious vein popular in Austria and Bavaria between the wars. The postcard was sent for Christmas 1931 (dated 28.XII.31) from the family of a sender named Familie [redacted] to Familie Rammer in Mürzzuschlag, Steiermark (Styria), Austria — a small industrial town known for its ironworks and as the site where Brahms composed his Fourth Symphony. Published by Adalbert Mayrhofer, Kierling bei Wien, card no. 1008.